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Know thy class. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Drake saying no to the conventional class system of lower, middle and upper class, but saying yes to the marxist distinction based on one’s ownership of means of production and the ability to profit off of another class’s labor.

Proletarians sell the value of their labor to bourgeois who profit off of the excess value the workers produce, and typically own the means and infrastructure of production, be it a factory or a farm, or in more recent and digital times, usually the “Cloud”, ad space, the social media platform (youtube, facebook, twitter), and digital marketplace (Amazon, who has monopsony power on digital sellers)

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[-] davel@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

“Middle class” does get used propagandistically to confound worker solidarity.

Marxists themselves, though, when developing revolutionary strategies, do make finer distinctions within the two classes of the particular society they’re strategizing about.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Hard to compare someone working the fryers at McDonald’s to an office worker making six figures, though they both fit in the first bucket as defined

[-] fox@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Professional Managerial Class

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